BD BACTEC FX40 - 5.3.8 Culture - Specimen Display

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5.3.8 Culture – Specimen Display
The Culture – Specimen display enables you to add or recall information on specimens (accessions).
The following functions can be performed:
• Recall a specimen to add or modify information
• Disassociate a vial from an accession num
ber (see Disassoc(iate) button below)
• Associate vials (scannable sequence numbers) to an accession number
• Create specimen record and add patient information at the Culture – Patient tab
Culture – Specimen can be accessed from either the Culture – Patient or Culture – Vial tab when you
se
lect the Specimen tab from one of those displays.
Any specimen records appear in the Specimen window (bott
om half of display). Initially, the first
specimen record is highlighted. Select the Specimen or Vial tabs to see additional information on the
highlighted specimen.
When new information is added, or a field is chan
ged, the field name appears highlighted until the
information is saved.
Note that in a BD EpiCenter™ configu
ration, you cannot enter Hospital Service or Collection
Date\Time at the instrument. This operation can only be performed at the BD EpiCenter™ system.
You cannot access Culture displays in an in
strument that is in degraded mode.
To access Culture – Specimen:
From the Status display, select Culture
From the Culture – Patient display, select the Specimen tab
Culture – Specimen Display Fields:
Accession
For a new specimen record, enter up to 20 alphanumeric characters, excluding the following:
* ? [ ]
! # |.
Accession number cannot be 12 digits long AND begin with the numbers “44.”
Once it is saved, an accession number cannot be changed.
An accession can be saved with no vials attached.
To recall a specimen record, enter an existing accession number. You must enter the whole
accession number.
Collection Date\Time
Enter the date and time when the specimen was collected. See Set button below.
Service
Select the field to access the on
screen keyboard. Enter up to 6 characters excluding the
following:
* ? [ ] ! # |
to designate the hospital service or ward.